And for this I am truly Grateful....

I forgot to publish this one;p  Better late than never lol!!!
enjoy!


It's Spring and Spring is my element.  I'm a spring baby, hence my undying optimism I am often told.  As if there was something wrong with being optimistic.


Recently some friends of mine has been through some rough times.  I've been able to help.  Which I must admit felt great because they have helped me in the past and it feels good to be able to be on the giving side for a change.
It has humbled me greatly.  It made me think about giving and receiving and how often as a modern women I want to do everything myself.   If it's broke, I'll fix it!! If I need it I'll buy it! if I'm in need I sort it out and tell you about it once I'm done mmmmmnnnn sound familiar?


I am sooooo blessed to have amazing family and friends how love and support me but I sometime forget to use that support system,  I don't mean use as in take advantage of. I mean use as in let them help, support and love me.  Life is too short.  I was not put on this planet to be a one woman show.  We are a theatre of charaters, personalities, opinions and dreams.  If we dont stay conected we miss so much of lifes sweetness.


So busy doing that we dont feel, So busy thinking that we dont see, So busy planning that we dont live.


The more I listen, read, learn and grow, the more I realize I dont know.  That excites me, makes me feel that life is always challenging me as I challenge myself and for that I am truly grateful

Staying On Track!!!

So I've got all my goals and dreams and plans.  Plans to get things done.  Things that I've said to myself are important in order for me to get to where I've said I wanna be.

 

Excited! Ready to run! Ready to take on the world :o)

Then what happens?  Well 6, 7 months in I'm not were I said I wanted to be?  Don't get me wrong I am so highly favoured and truly blessed. 
Where I am now is definitely further along, it's a great place on my journey with extra goodies I wasn't expecting. 


But life just keeps happening. You ever heard that one?  
"I was heading this way and life happened"  
"I was coming to meet you and something important came up";)
Funny how the something that turns up is always important.

ANYWAY!!!, so I was on track, taking action that was in alinement with the end in mind and so on and soon...  Then life kept happening and days, weeks maybe even months later I stopped look around and thought, What the hell am I doing here and how did I get here... 

                 Things that make you go mmmmmnnnnn.


Listening to audio's reading life changing books and just staying plugged into positive influences around me is a HUGE part of my Higher She journey.


So one day I'm listening to The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson and I have a " OMG that's totally amazing" moment.  
The chapter's entitled Course Correction.  It talks about an Apollo space craft and how this amazing peice of state of the art techonlogy on it's way into space is off course 90% of its journey and that every 29 out of 30 minutes this massive space craft is correcting it's course. 


I'm listening to it and thinking "that's it"!!!,  if it's good enough for NASA, it's good enough for my life.  
So I've decided that instead of worrying about being off track,  (and BTW, worrying is praying for what I don't want to happen)
I'll just keep correcting my course, readjusting it. 
keep checking myself each day.  My thoughts, actions, the people around me and most importantly for me personally, enjoying the ride, apprecating the awesome views and the fabulous people that I'm travelling with. 
If I stay on this road long enough I'll get what I seek.


Fun Freedom And Fulfilment ;o)

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Go visit:  The Slight Edge 

It's A New Dawn:)

It's the new year babe!!! WHHHOOOPPPIII!! 
For most of us we officially get to start again.  We get to leave the old us behind.  We get to be better, healthier, fitter, sexier, smarter, richer and and and and......
Or do we?
Well for the 1st time in a long time I did things a little differently;)


2011 for me was phenomenal right up until it's very end:). 
Because I've been creating my life by design DUH!!! Lol!

I'd been procrastinating about doing exercise all through 2011, driving myself and other people nuts with my YEAH BUT!! Stories... You know them right?? Your own YEAH BUT stories???


So on Sunday December 4th 2011 I joined the gym. 
Went to Body Conditioning class on Monday,  had a blast, pulled a muscle in my hamstring and hobbled around for a few days. OH JOY;)
I got going anyway.  I was in an aerobics class on boxing day and by Jan 3rd I was on a role and hooked on the new found energy.

Fast forward back to December quickly.  Because I took action on that one thing, I started doing other cool stuff.  
Organised my home, bought some great books and read them, met people I hadn't seen all year.

I wrote my goals, deciding  to create for myself a limitless 2012:) I felt like December 2011 wasn't the end.  I just had unfinished business.
That to me felt sooooo fabulous.


That's the secret sauce I found, once I started taking action I felt
unstoppable.  In quite a relaxing way because it was the Xmas season, I wasn't running my business and my gorgeous son was spending Xmas holidays with his Dad. So Leon's Mummy, became Evette Launica Franklin for two weeks:)


Anyway point being on December 31st 2011 while everyone was saying OK that's over.  New start, know I can be better, healthier, fitter, sexier, smarter, richer and and and......... 
I was at complete peace for the first time in a long while on a New Years Eve night. 
By Jan 2nd I was on the move, in the gym, making calls, connecting for business. Was an interesting day because not everyone was ready yet (bank holiday, hungover, recovery day:)
Well! except the people at the gym and in my packed out Zumba class.


It's all good, we are all living in our truth, on our individual journeys, wearing our coloured glasses (weather, they be rose tinted or not;)


I'm learning that everyday is my new years day, everyday is a new chance to be the higher me. 


"It's a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life for me and I'm feeling good" (EVERYDAY;)

Nina Simone/ Feeling Good     http://youtu.be/h8tuTSi6Sck

Wishing you all a limitless 2012:)


"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi 

Detox

I recently did a five day Madal Bal lemon detox.


Why detox??. 
I was feeling slugish in every way, energy, mind body and spirt, not good!!. 
Also, I just got back from an amazing five day break in Willtshire.  
Staying with a crazy group of friends in a tudor mansion hotel/house.  
Five days half board (breakfast & silver service dinner).  Deliciously, freshly prepared food by wonderful shefs, all for silly a price too. 
So when food is that good and free its rude to waste it or not eat all three courses at dinner, with wine.

 I got home and even though I was well rested and happy after my time away, something still wasn't right and that bottle of Madal Bal was still sitting on top of my Fridge going " what you wanting for an invite from the queen?". 
So Friday morning taking my son to school I thought f**k it, I'm gonna go get some lemons and do this deal:)  
Did I also mention that I couldn't fit into my favourite jeans:( not cool! 

Friday was tough!!! I mixed my Madal Bal natural tree syrup and was so weak after no breakfast or lunch that I fell asleep, was late to pick up my son early from school, so he missed his Capoeira class (HUGE DEAL). 
Had to make his dinner and not eat. WHAT THE HELL!!!! 
So I focused on the benefits. Yes I said benefits!!

• More energized 
• No more blotted belly 
• Resting and healing my body especially my digestive system 
• Total rehydration. duh!!! on 4 litters of water a day, no muss!! (of course)
• Empowerment after achieving this goal 

Day two, Saturday and my son was staying with his Dad so I only had to be a loving human being until 12pm when his dad picked him up.  
Boy I really had to check myself, OFTEN!!!!!!  
Remember that line in a Bob Marley tune a hungry man is an angry man??? It's true!!!
But I did good! I kept it to myself, after all it was my choice to fast/detox, go without food for 5 days. 


The next 3 days OMG!! I had to be close to the toilet (4 lietres of liquids remember!!!)


Apart from that it was an eye opener, here's what I realized; 

• I eat because I LOVE food, not because I'm hungry
• I don't need to eat as much as I do
• I don't drink as much as I should or could
• I can go without food for 5 whole days and not die
• I actually feel good;)
• I have lots of energy, maybe, because my body wasn't using energy digesting food.
• I have taste buds;)

Let me elaborate.... 
On day 4, I had to get out of the house.  So meet my friend my for tea, where? In the French pastery shop of course lol!! 
It's all good, by then I was into my liquids, so I had a green tea.  OMG!!! It was a taste sensation
NO LIE!!! Every inch of my tongue tasted that green tea.  It was amazing!!!


The Bonus that I didnt expect after such a short time. I fit into my jeans YEAH BABY;)
Five days to be too big for my jeans and five days to fit into them again. 
Isn't that interesting;)
So, after the five days I'm eating soups and salads. 
I made yummy home-made vegetable soup.




I feel FANTASTIC 
Energy level is high
Vibrations are high
I did a lot of planning, praying, meditating, reflecting and reading in those five days.  
Most importantly I grew!!! 
Out of a comfort zone.  
I left behind ideas and habits around food. 
Moving into The Higher She:)

Staying On Track

Staying on track. Recently I felt a new understand the expression that says something about, "Keeping you head will all around you people are losing theirs"

For me it's not so much keeping my head but keeping my focus and my peace, while people around me are stressed, depressed or just pissed off.

I prepare myself in the morning with an hour of personal development before my son wakes up and our daily routine begins.

That's the plan but it doesn't always work out that way:p

I read insperational material before we leave the house and it ground me before I go out.

I love my life and I'm blessed with a loving suppotive familly and empowering loving friends.

Saying that sometimes it's hard for people to understand my journey and why I make the choices I make.

I love them anyway and realize that their life is seen and lived through their own pepsonal filters, and values. I'm learning to be more aware of and see things from their perspective.

I have my head firmly glued in the book, How To Win Friends And Infulence People.

The Book 

I avioded reading it for a long time because I made assumptions about the contents of the book based ob the title and my perception.

OMG was I ever mistaken.

Every chapter, every page is absolute gold that is helping me learn to listen, communicate and understand people better. What a wonderful thing to learn. To be a better me. It's not easy but it's soooooo worth it.

So that's how I stay on track, I read great books. I listen to audios from great personal development speakers and attend seminars, with great people:)

I stay connected with positive like minded people who understand and support me in achieving my dreams and goals and I laugh a lot, at life at myself at the moments I find myself in;)

I keep my goals in the for front of my mind and life.

I just keep on Keeping on.

Truly Blessed And Highly Favoured:)  

Know And Remember WHY!

Knowing and remembering why is one of the most important lessons I've learnt so far.

I had no idea how important it would be or how many times knowing why I want to achieve my goals would save me from ending up god knows where

Imagine you have a map of where you want to go but getting directions from your friend whose never been there mmmnnnnn

I've never lived my life as proactively or deliberately as I do now.

It's quite a rollercoster ride and I HATE rollercosters. Anything faster than a tea pot make me feel sick as a dog.

What does that mean anyway? Is a dog being sick the worst kinda sick a being can be? And who measured it anyway????!!!:P

So here and now, I'm creating my life by design, a higher me and financial freedom not just for myself but for my cub and my family. 

Why?

I want to rely on myself to be able to care for provide for ALL my cubs needs.   His health, education, fun, future and so much more.

I want to do that independently of my family or government assistance.

I want to leave a legacy of wealth creation and financial freedom for his children s children's children....

I want to be the great great grandmother that changes, transforms my families financial legacy.

I want to do what I want, with who I want, when I want and my choices never be limited by how much money we have or don't have.

I want to enjoy everything this amazing world has to offer.

I want to contribute towards making the kind of abundantly, blessed and prosperous world I want to live.

NEGATRONS: say whatever Evette, get a job, sort yourself out, stop dreaming those ridiculous dreams:(

EMPOWERTRONS: say AWESOME, remember those whys, make a plan, stick to the path, have a dream team, grow yourself, It's not easy but Its worth it:)

Now I spend pretty much everyday of every month with EMPOWERTRONS:). On the phone, in person, even on facebook.

When the going gets tough, sticky, icky, or just flipping scary,  I remember my WHYS.

I'm never gonna give up on my cub and my family so it energises me, gives me strength, makes me cry.

If your why don't make you cry, its not big enough. (Can't remember who said that, if you do leave a comment pls)

My mentor says people will always do more for other people than for themselves. Amazing! Beautiful too gives me hope for our human race:)

A speaker that inspires me when he talks about his why is Johnny Wimbrey.

Internationally renowned motivational speaker, mentored by Les Brown.

He has shared stages with Les Brown, Zig Ziggler, Jim Rohn and many other great speakers.

Johnny Wimbrey

Want + Why = Must

 http://www.johnnywimbrey.com

Interwiew with Johnny Wimbrey


Books by Johnny Wimbrey

Don't Sweat It! Don't Worry! Don't Freak Out!

Easier said than done Right?!!!! 
Was having a conversation with a friend yesterday about this very thing.  We were talking about some of the challenges we where experiencing in life lately, and the thing I love about this friend is she didn't turn our conversation into a pity party.  You know those, why me? Wailing and bawling conversations (Nothing wrong with bawling) I love a good bawl sometimes, its cleansing I find.
Well she made a point that stuck in my head, about being responsible.  She made the decision a while back that she was going to take responsibility for every aspect of her life, yes every aspect.  Saying that there are moments when she has a little voice in her head (you know the voice) it says " BUT ITS NOT FAIR"  

I've learnt that the events, circumstances in my life are a big beautiful mirror reflecting who I am right here and now. MMMMNNNNN.  

Remember that tune anyone? Things that make you go MMMMMNNN.. MMMNN.. 
MMMNNN!
Lots of things in my mirror of life make me sing that song. The powerful questions for me are; What did I say, do, choose that brought this situation to me? What can I say, do, choose now to make things different? What does it all mean to me? How can I learn and grow from it? Where's the positive?  
I bet you too have had those moments when you think??!!! What bloody positive? There's none? I'm deep in it! its all around me!! and I can't see for it!!! What's it?!! Yep SHITE!!! Lol! 
When I'm in that place I breath, deeply, deliberately, consciously. I find the positive meaning (shite is wicked fertiliser for my growth;) I remember all the things and people I  have right now that I'm grateful for. I have a truthful chat with myself and answer my questions:

What did I say, do, choose that brought this situation to me? What can I say, do, choose now to make it different? What does it mean to me? How can I learn and grow from it? Where's the positive?
Then I step, dance, sing, smile into my life again.
Don't sweat the shite! It won't be there forever. 
I like to remember times when I felt so bad or lost and how if I think back to that time now it has no meaning, it wasn't a big deal! What was all the fuss about;)  
Don't wish for your problems to be smaller, wish you were bigger~Jim Rohn                              The Amazing Jim Rhon

                                                                    Grow you bigger~Me;)